How to Use nose cone in a Sentence

nose cone

noun
  • The nose cone houses radar and is much more fragile than the rest of the plane.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
  • The collision appears to have sheared off the plane’s nose cone.
    — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 23 Mar. 2026
  • Three years later, it was paraded again with a rounder, more blunt nose cone.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 17 Apr. 2017
  • Less than a minute later, the two halves of the nose cone fairing were jettisoned.
    — William Harwood, CBS News, 11 Nov. 2019
  • The nose cone is a radome, which is any dome that protects and encloses radar equipment.
    — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 8 July 2020
  • Radar in the missiles' nose cones steer the missiles toward their targets.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 9 Oct. 2015
  • For this, SpaceX needed to add large flaps to the tank section, and a nose cone.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 20 Oct. 2020
  • But lidar systems are still too bulky and expensive to fit into a plane’s nose cone.
    — Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Until now, seating at the nose cone and back of the Monorail were not available.
    — Blake Bakkila, Sunset Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
  • When the smoke cleared, all that was left of the rocket was a charred and misshapen nose cone resting on the landing pad.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Science, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The nose cone of a French 75mm artillery shell, mostly intact.
    — Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The shuttle trains will be a hit for kids — there are handles for standing at a train’s front, which suggests a nose cone.
    — Kevin Spear, OrlandoSentinel.com, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Once the rocket is in space, the nose cone, or payload fairing, splits in half and the pieces fall back to Earth.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 13 July 2018
  • It was powered by three Raptors and had a nose cone and stabilizing body flaps.
    — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 10 Dec. 2020
  • The red nose cone on Stefan Wilson’s car quickly gives way to a matte black hood.
    — Wilson Moore, The Indianapolis Star, 25 May 2022
  • But in January, Musk tweeted that strong winds had damaged the nose cone.
    — Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2019
  • Once the rocket is balanced correctly, water sprays from the rocket nose cone.
    — Kathleen Willcox, Popular Mechanics, 20 July 2022
  • Instead, the nose cone fell off the rocket hours before it was supposed to leave the launch pad Thursday.
    — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 16 May 2025
  • The top half included its nose cone, and the aft section was composed of barrels making up the fuselage.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 4 Aug. 2019
  • Officials located the submersible’s nose cone and one end of its pressure hulls in a large debris field.
    — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 24 June 2023
  • The kit's modifications include plenty of front-end work, from the front lip spoiler to the new nose cone.
    — Sebastian Blanco, Car and Driver, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The top half includes the vehicle’s nose cone, and the aft section is composed of barrels that make up the fuselage.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 25 July 2019
  • Photos shared across social media show the nose cone ripped to shreds, revealing the radar equipment that hides behind it.
    — Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 11 June 2024
  • The company tried the trick for the first time in February, but the nose cone piece just missed the boat by a few hundred yards.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 30 Mar. 2018
  • Also known as the payload fairing, the nose cone is the bulbous structure that surrounds the satellite at the top of the rocket.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 16 Apr. 2018
  • That will help workers install the tips of the rockets, known as the forward assembly, which includes the nose cone and forward skirt.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The first piece of debris discovered was the vessel’s nose cone—part of a large debris field containing the front end of the pressure hull.
    — Alex Christian, WIRED, 29 June 2023
  • This time, Elon Musk's company aimed to land the $6 million nose cone into a giant ocean net.
    — Gary Cotton, CNN, 30 Mar. 2018
  • The shell’s nose cone underwent a similar transformation in the mud.
    — Michael Jerome Plunkett september 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • The Takeaway The nose cone of a Kinzhal missile seems a lot less threatening on the ground with a large hole in it.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 May 2023

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